I’m really loving how the better I take care of myself with things like regular exercise, the worse I feel. Chronic illness is, like, so fun.

When I see people who follow my work out in the world they always mention how hard I seem to be working & I just want to say: if it looks like an artist is busting their butt & working more than you can comprehend, it’s because we are just trying to survive. I’m just trying to survive capitalism.

Nothing makes me rage against my tax dollars being wasted more than hearing the Portland Police Bureau plane fly circles over my head in SE Portland. I really have a harder time imagining something that feels like more of a waste of money than that freaking thing.

All of this, 100%! Why is so much of our budget going to the police who do nothing about basic traffic enforcement?!?

It’s so frustrating. Neither my daughter nor myself have ever learned to drive. I rely on walking and transit and she on her bike. Until today we had luckily only had dozens of close calls but the fear we both have moving around this city of entitled drivers is overwhelming.

Stop sign strapped to telephone pole

Maybe this is turning into: stop signs, a thread

Stop sign with a sticker under the stop that reads: driving

Pertinent sign in my walk

Also, my daughter seems to be ok, her bike is going to need to be replaced which sucks because it’s her main form of transportation. But seriously, I’m so fucking tired of people driving shitty in their cars. None of you are driving as well as you think you are.

Portland, Oregon drivers wtf is wrong with you? I just was reading a thread on here of a person hit on their bike a few days ago and now my adult daughter was just hit on her bike on her way to work. You people need to slow the fuck down and pay attention to your surroundings.

I stopped using it because they really just don’t care about sellers concerns at all. They do seem to be aware of this glitch and are trying to fix it but it just confirms my decision to leave the platform. I had a shop there so long it feels hard to close it but now it’s time.

I was one of those kids, I never was able to get a single book from book fair. Not only was I sad because I loved books, but it made me a bigger target for bullying by the rest of the kids.

I stopped using Etsy almost a year ago but woke up to a $17 shipping adjustment for I package I shipped 5 years ago. Funny thing is, I’m not the only one, loads of people have gotten these wild adjustments this morning.

Exactly the encouragement I need in this moment.

Friends, was the day so hard that we’re going to have a 2 pizza night?

I’m so tired that I was going to paste a link on another platform but instead just typed out the work “link”🥱

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So anyway, if anyone needs me, I’ll be hiding in bed with Fifi trying to find a video game that doesn’t suck to play on my phone until this passes.

Also, I just would really love to rail against the misogyny of modern medicine a bit. Women suffer from the majority of autoimmune disorders yet there is pretty much no information or support around how our illnesses interact with our cycles.

People ask me how I’m so productive and the secret is that I feel like I have a gun to my head when I’m able to work because a flare-up could stop me in my tracks at any moment.

Being a chronically ill full time artist who very much needs the income from the art I make really sucks some days especially. 🧵🪡

Should have said Cardinal rather than bishop. You know like Cardinal Richelieu looking at these guys and saying OMFG.

I really like to imagine some seriously corrupt 17th century Catholic bishop or something seeing today’s American Christian Nationalists and gasping, “Wow, those guys are seriously depraved.”

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I couldn’t go protest today because I’m too far behind on deadlines, but the Fear Witch and me burned the fears of a bunch of folks who gave them to her during my last show.

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Ah to be a songbird on a sunny spring morning rather than a cog in a fascist capitalist regime toiling away without respite.

I also just happen to think cursive is cool and write all my own journals in cursive as well because it’s so much faster than printing.

Going to dip my toe into the cursive writing discourse: I did teach my daughter to read cursive because I have a few generations of my family’s letters and other written ephemera and it’s important to me that she is able to read this and other older written records.

Tonight I’m starting a new class whose idea springs from my own morning sketchbook practice. Fun that something I sit in my bed drinking coffee while doing is turning into a whole class, Comics for Self-reflection.